If you can’t measure what “works”, how do you know it does? Knowing what works means you can do more of it Here are some points i found to be particularly relevant: • Political parties tend to be over-reliant on in-house wisdom, often gleaned from the last successful war. They…

Can algorithms be mutants? Boris Johnson decided to sidestep responsibility for the A-level exam results fiasco by blaming a “mutant algorithm”. His description of the algorithmic decision-making involved in creating such disarray for thousands of schoolchildren sounded a bit like a Roman general blaming the Gods for losing a battle…

Two weeks into my first semester as an undergrad student in The Netherlands, i was run over by a car. My right leg was broken in two places and i spent almost a week in hospital. During my first year at uni i was known as the “wheelchair guy”. …

If the Liberal giant returned to write another report, what would he seek to address? William Beveridge’s 1942 report paved the way for the modern British welfare state. Beveridge had carefully scrutinised British society and identified 5 different ills: Ignorance, Squalor, Want, Disease, Idleness. To combat these ills, his report…

A group of Conservatives are now promoting themselves as “Liberal Conservatives”. This is a sure sign of how regressive and damaging their agenda for government is likely to be. …

And how is it different from Socialism or Conservatism? Ideology > Ideas > Policies > Laws Liberalism, Socialism and Conservatism are three political ideologies. Roughly speaking, an ideology is a way of looking at the world. The principal purpose of Liberalism is reform. Liberals see the world through the prism…

Political communications was once a one-way process; politicians spoke from stages and voters listened. The art of the trade was to ensure voters received the politician’s message, stories trickled down to the people through journals, periodicals and newspapers. …